Map the System 2020
In 2020, Map the System had 52 international educational institutions, 3500 students taking part and 31 finalists attending the Global Final in June.
2nd place
Second place went to University of Illinois team, awarded £3,000 for their examination of women’s health inequities and menstruation in the United States.
3rd place
Third place was awarded to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, used systems science to better understand disparities in smoking rates in the United States.
Becky Ryder
Becky works across group organisations to support teams who are adopting a systems approach, including leading the development of materials and programs designed to increase systems capacities.
Ed Straw
Ed is the Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University’s Applied Systems Thinking in Practice unit, headed by Professor Ray Ison, with whom he recently co-authored a book on The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking, and its application to governments and governance.
Jill Andres
Jill brings over two decades of experience to her work supporting social entrepreneurs and multi-stakeholder groups to effect meaningful, systemic change.
Joe Hsueh
Joe has completed more than 60 systems mapping projects worldwide. Developing a participatory systems mapping methodology and an online tool to help corporations, foundations and governments co-develop systems change strategies with stakeholders.
Josiane Smith
Josiane is the Partnerships and Growth Manager at SIX. Gathering market intelligence, building international ecosystems across government, university, corporate and philanthropic sectors and building capacity around systems thinking in context and practice.
Sharon Zivkovic
Sharon is the Founder and CEO of Community Capacity Builders and Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Wicked Lab. In partnership with government, Community Capacity Builders delivers active citizenship programs and a program for social entrepreneurs that takes a complex systems approach
